00:03:17.200So, Ilham Omar has been in hiding this after there is a serious investigation and then them actually coming into her house, raiding it, and taking things afterwards.
00:04:52.340According to reports that have been widely circulated by CNN, CBS News, Washington Post, they're all now saying the same thing.
00:05:00.480Federal investigators are examining whether Omar or her late father provided false information on immigration and citizenship paperwork dating back decades.
00:05:11.340That's number one. Now, specifically, we're now learning investigators are looking at whether her age was accurately reported when her father became a naturalized American citizen in 2000.
00:05:23.740Now, you may say, all right, why does that matter?
00:05:26.140Well, because under the citizenship laws that were applicable at the time, a child could automatically acquire citizenship through a naturalized parent.
00:05:36.580if certain requirements were satisfied.
00:05:39.780Well, investigators are now examining whether Omar actually did qualify.
00:05:44.560And if federal prosecutors can establish that material information was deliberately falsified,
00:07:44.980I just wanted to say thank you so much for the support to everyone who sent a note of
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00:08:13.380We're not going to be intimidated. We're not going to be silenced. We're not going to be scared.
00:08:17.080I'll be out there campaigning alongside all of you and making sure that we be back all of this
00:08:23.540and that we win in the midterms, win the House, win the Senate, and hold this administration
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00:08:44.080There it is. Elam for Congress. She puts it out there. It's going to be very challenging. It's
00:08:51.940going to be a challenging time. Now, you notice that she was a little bit more meek and mild.
00:08:58.360She used her bread and butter that Donald Trump is evil, even though Donald Trump has said from
00:09:03.140the very beginning one thing, we're going to cut down on waste fraud that would apply to her and0.93
00:09:09.300abuse that would also apply to Omar. She was also asked one other question in an interview
00:09:15.660about the rumors of her marrying her brother in an MSNOW, the Liberal Network.
00:09:21.720And I want you to hear what she said in the interview about that.
00:09:25.540It started with a Somali blog that I don't know if it still exists,
00:09:31.540but somebody put in there that, you know, that he had to have been my brother or something to that effect.
00:09:37.400And right wing conspiracy theorists in Minneapolis got a hold of it.
00:09:43.520and they just kind of went and like found random people who were like she introduced us uh you know
00:09:49.920she introduced him to us and said he was her brother um which is you know it's insane i mean
00:09:57.040no i don't know those people that they talk about he was not you were not related to him
00:10:02.880not that there's not like there's a weird kernel of truth that's through some game not to my
00:10:06.960knowledge not to my knowledge that's your new line of excuse again this is alam omar sitting
00:10:17.040down with a friendly saying not to my knowledge am i related to this guy who people say is my
00:10:25.020brother who i married now there's also another part of this investigation that we're learning
00:10:32.180about, and it involves the family's finances. CBS News has also reported that federal prosecutors
00:10:39.300are examining the financial disclosures involving businesses operated by Omar's husband. Those
00:10:47.040disclosures initially reported business valuations totaling between $6 million and $30 million.
00:10:54.400Omar subsequently attributed the figures to an accounting error and then filed amended
00:11:00.380disclosures reporting substantially lower asset values. Federal authorities are examining those
00:11:06.140discrepancies. And a discrepancy in a financial disclosure does not, by the way, automatically
00:11:10.840mean somebody committed a crime. But what prosecutors are looking into is what happened
00:11:15.800and whether any laws were violated and there was this much money, where did it actually go?
00:11:23.100Now, these are all questions that she should have to answer. She was asked about her money and
00:11:29.360she wants you to believe now that no no she's not rich she's working class and lives a very
00:11:35.780basic life right right let me ask um about the second part of the world that the president
00:11:43.740has conjured about you which is which is your fabulous wealth he has said that like i mean
00:11:49.180again you just you can never track what the president's actually saying because he says a
00:11:53.280lot of things um that you have all this money that you drive a lot of cars you have a bunch of houses
00:11:57.220um they cited a financial disclosure for for congress that initially said that your husband's
00:12:04.840firm was worth 30 million dollars that was before an accountant put in the liabilities of that firm
00:12:10.920which then brought the 30 million down to like essentially net zero 20 000 which did make me
00:12:16.840worry a little about your husband's business to be honest he's not in them anymore i was like well
00:12:22.080that seems like a big difference between 30 million dollars and 20 000 there was a congressional
00:12:26.660oversight body that voted that there's no wrongdoing there's no evidence of wrongdoing
00:12:31.640what is your financial situation i mean it's you know working working class i guess like
00:12:38.160paycheck to paycheck still you know we've got four kids um and you know we we live i think like a
00:12:45.660life i i have a toyota camry that's from 2016 it's my only car um i rent my dc place and my
00:12:55.320minneapolis place and so i mean i don't know that that sounds like you know not majority of congress
00:13:02.280but there's some of us that are that don't come from wealth and don't have wealth is that a big
00:13:06.820divide in congress it is yeah because you have like the millionaires and and then you have those
00:13:14.020of us you know when we first went to congress had to borrow money to find a place it's expensive
00:13:18.880to live in two places yeah it's expensive you know to live in two places when you listen to
00:13:27.500that interview you almost have to ask yourself this question is it even an interview or is it
00:13:33.880just straight up propaganda there's not a tough question there he's apologizing on her behalf
00:13:39.600making it easier for to answer the questions those aren't hard questions it's like well
00:13:44.120you know they they they said you didn't do anything wrong so you know let's let's just
00:13:48.360make sure that everybody knows that you're totally fine. And hey, who cares if $6 million or $15
00:13:53.680million or $20 or $30 million in fact disappeared and that you changed it? How do you get it that
00:13:59.340wrong in your financial disclosures? There's a lot here. And this goes back to President Donald
00:14:05.820Trump, a really important part of the question with President Donald Trump that he talked about.
00:14:12.340And that is, hey, if you're committing fraud or abuse, it doesn't matter who you are.
00:14:19.180It doesn't matter, by the way, if you are a member of Congress.
00:14:22.860We are going to find it and we are going to make sure that you cannot abuse the system.
00:14:28.260Now, ultimately, if it comes out in this investigation and she should have never been eligible to be in Congress, that she actually shouldn't even be in this country and that she lied on these forms.
00:14:40.720that is going to send a massive message to others that have lied to get in this country
00:14:47.980or others that have broken into this country or others that have lied on forms to stay in this
00:14:54.780country that while donald trump's in office while he's the president while his administration is in
00:15:01.660charge it doesn't matter who you are they are willing to look at everything and that may be
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